--- libabigail-1.6/configure.ac	2019-03-27 05:31:13.000000000 -0400
+++ libabigail-1.6/configure.ac	2019-07-18 07:12:25.129755599 -0400
@@ -147,20 +147,6 @@ fi
 
 AC_SUBST(VISIBILITY_FLAGS)
 
-dnl Older glibc had a broken fts that didn't work with Large File Systems.
-dnl We want the version that can handler LFS, but include workaround if we
-dnl get a bad one. Add define to CFLAGS (not AC_DEFINE it) since we need to
-dnl check it before including config.h (which might define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS).
-AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether including fts.h with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS set breaks], ac_cv_bad_fts,
-  [AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[
-	#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64
-	#include <fts.h>
-	]])],
-		     ac_cv_bad_fts=no, ac_cv_bad_fts=yes)])
-AS_IF([test "x$ac_cv_bad_fts" = "xyes"],
-      [CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DBAD_FTS=1",
-       CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -DBAD_FTS=1"])
-
 dnl Check for dependency: libelf, libdw, libebl (elfutils)
 dnl Note that we need to use at least elfutils 0.159 but
 dnl at that time elfutils didnt have pkgconfig capabilities
@@ -577,7 +563,7 @@ AX_VALGRIND_CHECK
 
 dnl Set the list of libraries libabigail depends on
 
-DEPS_LIBS="$XML_LIBS $LIBZIP_LIBS $ELF_LIBS $DW_LIBS"
+DEPS_LIBS="$XML_LIBS $LIBZIP_LIBS $ELF_LIBS $DW_LIBS -lfts"
 AC_SUBST(DEPS_LIBS)
 
 if test x$ABIGAIL_DEVEL != x; then